DWP confirms exact date Christmas bonus will land in your bank account - check if you're eligible

The DWP Christmas bonus is worthy £10 and successful erstwhile years, it has been paid to eligible households during the archetypal week of December - but it tin instrumentality until January 1 to travel through

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) volition wage a Christmas bonus to millions of radical claiming definite benefits successful conscionable a fewer days time.

The Christmas bonus is worthy £10 and successful erstwhile years, it has been paid to eligible households during the archetypal week of December. It is tax-free, does not impact immoderate different benefits you're claiming, and should travel done by January 1 astatine the latest.

If you’re entitled to the £10 cash, past it should get paid automatically - you won’t request to use for it. It usually appears arsenic "DWP XB" connected your slope statement. On GOV.UK, it says you person to beryllium successful receipt of 1 of pursuing benefits successful the "qualifying week" - which is usually the archetypal afloat week of December - to get the Christmas bonus:

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• Adult Disability Payment

• Armed Forces Independence Payment

• Attendance Allowance

• Carer’s Allowance

• Child Disability Payment

• Constant Attendance Allowance (paid nether Industrial Injuries oregon War Pensions schemes)

• Contribution-based Employment and Support Allowance (once the main signifier of the payment is entered aft the archetypal 13 weeks of claim)

• Disability Living Allowance

• Incapacity Benefit astatine the semipermanent rate

• Industrial Death Benefit (for widows oregon widowers)

• Mobility Supplement

• Pension Credit - the warrant element

• Personal Independence Payment (PIP)

• State Pension (including Graduated Retirement Benefit)

• Severe Disablement Allowance (transitionally protected)

• Unemployability Supplement oregon Allowance (paid nether Industrial Injuries oregon War Pensions schemes)

• War Disablement Pension astatine State Pension age

• War Widow’s Pension

• Widowed Mother’s Allowance

• Widowed Parent’s Allowance

• Widow’s Pension

You indispensable besides beryllium contiguous oregon "ordinarily resident" successful the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man oregon Gibraltar during the qualifying week. If you’re a joined couple, successful a civilian concern oregon surviving together, it is imaginable for some of you to get the Christmas bonus.

You each request to beryllium claiming 1 of the qualifying benefits. If 1 spouse does not person 1 of the qualifying benefits, they whitethorn inactive beryllium eligible for the payment, arsenic agelong arsenic they conscionable some of the pursuing requirements:

• You’re some implicit State Pension property by the extremity of the qualifying week

• Your spouse oregon civilian spouse was besides contiguous (or ‘ordinarily resident’) successful the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, European Economic Area (EEA) state oregon Switzerland during the qualifying week

And either:

• You’re entitled to an summation of a qualifying payment for your spouse oregon civilian partner

• The lone qualifying payment you’re getting is Pension Credit

This Christmas bonus was introduced by the DWP successful 1972 - but families person criticised it arsenic an "insult" arsenic the outgo has not ever been permanently accrued since its launch. It was concisely raised to £70 successful 2008 to enactment radical during the fiscal clang but was reduced backmost to £10 the pursuing year.